A psalm and song that the first Adam uttered concerning the Sabbath day.

It is good to give thanks in the presence of the Lord, and to praise your name, O Most High.

To recount your goodness in the morning, and your truth in the nights,

According to the harp of tenstrings, and according to the lyre, upon the murmuring of harps.

For you have made me glad, O Lord, by your works; I will rejoice in the works of your hands.

How great are your works, O Lord; your thoughts are very deep.

A foolish son of man will not know it, and a fool will not comprehend this.

**While the wicked flourish like grass and all workers of deceit blossom,**God is going to destroy them forever.

But you are highand supreme inthis **age, O LORD,**and you are high and supreme in the age to come.¹

footnotes: ¹ Another Targum: And you, your hand is supreme to punish the wicked in the age to come, in the great day of judgment, O LORD; and you, your hand is supreme to give a good reward to the righteous in the age to come, O LORD.

For, behold, your enemies, ² O LORD, for behold, your enemies will perish in the age to come; and all the workers of deceit will be separated from the band of the righteous.

footnotes: ² many targumim continue: prosper in this age;

You have raised up mymight like a wild-ox; you haveanointed me withmoist anointing oil of the leafy olive.

And my eye has looked onthe perdition of my oppressors; my ear has heardthe sound of the destruction of those who stand against me to do harm.

The righteous man will growfruit like the palm-tree, like the cedar in Lebanon he will growand produce roots.

His sons will be planted in the sanctuary of the Lord; in the court of the house of our God they will flourish.

Againlike their fathers they willproduce sons in old age; they will be plump and juicy.

So thatthe inhabitants of the earth might tell it, for the Lord is upright; mystrength,³ and there is no wrong in him.

footnotes: ³ many targumim read: mighty one;